Jessica Bäckman (born 25 August 1997) is a Swedish racing driver currently competing in the ADAC TCR Germany for

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. She is the sister of fellow racing driver Andreas Bäckman. Jessica Bäckman has previously raced in

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where she was the first women to achieve World Cup points in the series, and she was recently crowned the Vice Champion title in ADAC TCR Germany.

Career

Bäckman started her motorsport career in

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in 2006. She mainly competed in championships in Sweden, including third place in both the North Swedish and National Championships in 2009. In 2012, she competed in international championships for the first time; she was the best placed woman in the world championship and fifth in the European championship. She also became national champion in the Junior class that year. In 2013, 2014 and 2015, she won races in the Belgian championship. In addition, in 2014, she finished second in the Swedish KF2 Championship and eighth in the German KF2 Championship. In 2016, she finished third in the overall Belgian championship and won the Swedish 125 championship. In 2017, Bäckman made her debut in the

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and finished fourteenth in the RX2 class of the event in

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. She also won the Swedish 125 Championship again and was the best woman in the

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. In 2018, she moved into track racing with her entry into the TCR UK Touring Car Championship, competing alongside her brother for the WestCoast Racing team in a

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GTI TCR. She took a podium place at

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and was fourth in the final standings with 300 points. She also drove for WestCoast in five of the six race weekends of the

Scandinavian Touring Car Championship The Scandinavian Touring Car Championship (STCC) is a touring car racing series based in Scandinavia. The series took over from the Danish Touringcar Championship and Swedish Touring Car Championship, with its first season in 2011. The Scandi ...

. In this series, she had a more difficult

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with a twelfth place on the

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as the best classification, so that she finished winless in eighteenth in the standings. At the end of the year, she competed in the final weekend of the

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at the

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, finishing the races in 15th and 14th place. In 2019, Bäckman competed in the full season of TCR Europe with the

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team in a Hyundai i30 N TCR, again as her brother's teammate. She achieved a podium finish at the

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and thus became nineteenth in the final standings with 70 points. She also drove in the ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship as a guest driver during the race weekends at

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and the

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. At Most, she only finished thirteenth and one dropout, while she finished seventh and second at the Nürburgring. She also took part in the race weekend at the STCC's

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, finishing seventh and third. At the end of the year she competed in the FIA Motorsport Games, finishing seventh in both races in the touring car class for her national team, thus finishing sixth overall. In

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, Bäckman achieved her best result in the TCR Europe with seventh place at the

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, placing her in eighteenth place in the final standings with 60 points. In addition, she again took part in the race weekend at the Nürburgring of the ADAC TCR Germany as a guest driver. This time, she had to retire in the first race, but finished sixth in the second. In

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, Bäckman moved to the

, in which she will compete alongside her brother for Target Competition in a

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N TCR. Jessica was the first women to complete a season in the

and was also the first women to achieve World Cup points in the series, as she finished 14th in the season opener at Nürburgring Nordschleife In 2022, Bäckman races in the ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship with

in a Audi RS3 LMS TCR car. Jessica finished the season as Vice Champion in ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship with a total of 4 wins and 9 podiums. This made her the first women to finish top three in ADAC TCR Germany Touring Car Championship with her 4 wins.

Racing record

Career summary

^† As Bäckman was a guest driver, she was ineligible to score points.

Complete TCR Europe Touring Car Series results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) ^† Driver did not finish, but was classified as she completed over 90% of the race distance.

Complete World Touring Car Cup results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

Complete ADAC TCR Germany results

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Backman, Jessica 1997 births Living people People from Boden Municipality Swedish female racing drivers World Touring Car Cup drivers FIA Motorsport Games drivers Sportspeople from Norrbotten County Swedish racing drivers Karting World Championship drivers World Rallycross Championship drivers Comtoyou Racing drivers Engstler Motorsport drivers TCR Europe Touring Car Series drivers